Children below 13 years of age will not be able to use social media in this country, all preparations have been done, it is going to be banned

New York. A new bipartisan proposal introduced in the US Senate is going to set a national age limit for the use of social media across the country. The federal bill is going to ban the use of Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and other social media apps by any child under the age of 13. It has also been said in this social media bill that tech companies will have to take parental consent before creating accounts for teenagers.

According to a CNN report, the bill seeks to find out what experts say on the mental health crisis posed by social media. Under the provisions of the bill, children aged 13 years and below will be barred from creating accounts or interacting with other users on social media. However, they will still be able to view content on social media without logging into the account as per the draft law.

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The most important thing about this bill is that the bill will also prohibit companies from using personal information of teenagers to target them with content or advertising. Although some discounts have been offered. Talking about the legislation, Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, one of the authors of the federal bill, told reporters that there is an urgent need to protect children from the harms of social media.

Explain that users should be at least 13 years old to create an account on social media companies like Facebook and Instagram. Tiktok has a similar policy. The bill is the latest attempt to protect the mental health of youth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 57 percent of high school girls and 29 percent of high school boys reported feeling consistently sad or hopeless.

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